Chapter 40: Selling Zhuangzi
On the second day, Mrs. Zhang sent someone to call Zhang Yuqing to see her.
When Zhang Yuqing passed, Mrs. Zhang was hugging Zhang Yujin to feed.
Seeing people coming, Mrs. Zhang gave the child to the maid, raised her head and glanced at Zhang Yuqing, who was standing there quietly with her hands down.
The fifteen-year-old girl is when she is beautiful and beautiful, clean and elegant, with a quiet temperament, like a blue blooming in a deep valley, even if she is just an old clothes that do not fit, it is difficult to hide her beauty.
"I underestimated you! You're a capable person, too! Mrs. Zhang sneered, feeling annoyed in her heart, what a loss! Not only did he fail to sell Zhang Yuqing to the old man as a concubine, but he had to take a sum of money to get in!
Zhang Yuqing did not say anything.
"Didn't you say let me tell you about your in-laws? Silently found one by yourself! It's a shame that I didn't make any unpleasant noise, otherwise this family wouldn't be able to tolerate you! Mrs. Zhang slapped the table violently and scolded fiercely.
Zhang Yuqing spread her hands and looked helpless, "I can't find the old man and wife I want, I can't be an old girl in the Zhang family!" ”
"That's it, you have your own ideas, and I can't help it! Whether it's Yangguan Road or a single-plank bridge, you can go by yourself! Mrs. Zhang shook her head and said, "The old lady came to me about the Zhuangzi, I thought, since you are going to marry to Wu County, you can't take these two Zhuangzi away in the capital, it is better to sell them for silver taels, and count the makeup that the family gave you, what do you think?" ”
Zhang Yuqing raised his head and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "I don't understand what Madame said, these two Zhuangzi were originally my mother's private property, how could the Zhang family add makeup to me?" ”
Hearing this, Mrs. Zhang almost gritted her silver teeth in anger, and said with a sigh of relief: "You are still young, you don't know what happened back then!" After the Hu people left, Zhuangzi was almost destroyed! If it weren't for the Zhang family taking the money to rebuild Zhuangzi over the years, it would still be a pile of ruins! The Zhang family has invested a lot of money inside and outside over the years! ”
Zhang Yuqing glanced at Mrs. Zhang, who was pretending, and said dryly: "Thank you, Mrs. ”
"Thank you, no! Who called me a kind-hearted man? Mrs. Zhang sighed, "Yesterday I asked the steward to inquire, and there are really a few people who want to buy Zhuangzi!" ”
Zhang Yuqing raised her eyebrows and asked, "Oh? How much are they bidding? ”
Mrs. Zhang smiled and stretched out three fingers.
Without waiting for her to speak, Zhang Yuqing asked, "Thirty thousand taels?" ”
Mrs. Zhang almost didn't choke on saliva.
"What are you thinking! What 30,000 taels! Mrs. Zhang was anxious and angry, "That Zhuangzi is not made of gold, it is worth 30,000 taels?!" Three hundred taels! ”
Zhang Yuqing's eyes were regretful, "It's only three hundred taels?" ”
"You know what? Three hundred taels is already an excellent price! Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said, "If it weren't for my face, people would have paid two hundred and fifty taels at most!" ”
Zhang Yuqing scolded in his heart, "Your whole family is two hundred and five!" Whom do you shame two hundred and fifty taels of silver?
"You are still young, you have low eyes, and you don't understand the market in the market! With me to check for you, you can rest assured! I can't lose you! Although the days we have not lived together for a long time, but I can't pit you, besides, what's the benefit to me of pit you? You say, don't you? Mrs. Zhang smiled.
Mrs. Zhang pushed over a few pieces of paper on the table and said, "This is the deed for buying and selling Zhuangzi, you sign your name...... Oh yes, I forgot you can't read, you just press a mudra! Come on, bring the ink. ”
Zhang Yuqing glanced at the deed, which said that the price of two Zhuangzi was three hundred taels, and the buyer's name was Guo Tong, and he couldn't help but sneer.
She remembered that Mrs. Zhang's surname was Guo.
Mrs. Zhang's ink was opened, and she handed it to Zhang Yuqing's hand with a smile.
"Thank you Madame for your kindness, but the price is too low, I don't sell it!" Zhang Yuqing said.
Hearing Zhang Yuqing's refusal, Mrs. Zhang looked up at Zhang Yuqing in amazement.
Zhang Yuqing's dark eyes looked at her coldly.
"You kid! How can you be so ignorant! Mrs. Zhang was annoyed, and her heart was furious when she was stared at by Zhang Yuqing's eyes.
Zhang Yuqing asked rhetorically: "Three hundred taels of silver is an excellent price to buy two granges?" ”
"Naturally! You can't find such a good price anywhere! Mrs. Zhang said angrily.
Zhang Yuqing said: "I will give my wife 1,000 taels, as long as my wife helps me buy a grange, how about the extra money as my wife's hard work?" ”
Mrs. Zhang was dumbfounded, staring at her and speechless.
Zhang Yuqing chuckled, "Madam, if there is nothing else, I will leave first, and when you finish sorting out the Zhuangzi, just give me the title deed." ”
Before he walked out of the courtyard, Zhang Yuqing heard the sound of porcelain breaking from the house.
A few maids in the courtyard looked sideways at her and pointed.
Zhang Yuqing looked back at Mrs. Zhang's room, the bamboo curtain at the door was still closed, and she turned around and left expressionlessly.
When Zhang Yuying and Zhang Yuqian came over, they had already heard people on the road say that Zhang Yuqing was going to take away the Zhuangzi at home.
"Shameless thing!" Zhang Yuqian was furious, "Grandmother is so confused! I can actually agree to this! ”
Zhang Yuying frowned, "It's okay to be on the side, Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing can't ask her to snatch it away!" ”
She has also followed Mrs. Zhang to learn housekeeping in the past two years, and knows that those two Zhuangzi are of great significance to the Zhang family.
"Rob? She deserves it too! Zhang Yuqian said disdainfully.
The anger on Mrs. Zhang's face had not yet dissipated, and when she saw a pair of children coming, her heart swelled with a little sour sadness. The sour thing is that she is wholeheartedly for her children, and the sad thing is that the Zhang family has gone from the old lady to Zhang Zuozhen, and since she married into the Zhang family, they have all worked against her, damn hateful!
and that Zhang Yuqing, who is like a ghost who never goes away, has been looking for her for her life for more than ten years! made her want to kill her as soon as possible.
"I can't live this day!" Mrs. Zhang choked with red eyes and said, "They spend money one by one, and they don't know the difficulties of firewood, rice, oil and salt, so they will only come to embarrass me!" And that girl, who didn't have the slightest respect for me, just put my face on the ground and stepped on it! ”
Zhang Yuqian saw that his mother was so sad that she was about to cry, she was furious, rolled up her sleeves and shouted, "I'm going to clean her up!" Let her know how many eyes Lord Ma has! ”
"Come back!" Zhang Yuying hurriedly grabbed him, "Don't be impulsive!" ”
"How can I watch her lawlessness and see how angry her mother is!" Zhang Yuqian shouted angrily.
Mrs. Zhang also hurriedly grabbed her angry son, "My son, you are the young master, she is a girl, how are you going to clean her up?" Spread it out, you clean up your sisters, are you still a human being? The exam will be released in two days, don't make any ugly noise! ”
After coming out of Mrs. Zhang, Zhang Yuqing took Wang Chunniang out of the door and found He Qi's home.
After the old lady of the He family left, He Qi was the only one left in the He family, although he was in a closed household, but he was quite tidy and clean. Zhang Yuqing couldn't help but look at the next door, a family had already moved in, and several children, big and small, were dragging their noses and playing and playing, and they couldn't see that the house next door was connected to two people who died tragically.
After He Qi came back from work, he was surprised and delighted to see Zhang Yuqing and Wang Chunniang, saying that he had just received his salary today, and he was going to the restaurant to order a table of noodles and invite them to dinner.
"Thank you, Brother He, for your kindness." Zhang Yuqing waved his hand, "I came today to entrust Brother He with something." ”
He Qi was worried that there was no place to repay Zhang Yuqing for saving his life, and said without hesitation: "The girl just commands." ”
Zhang Yuqing told He Qi that he wanted to sell the two Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing.
"Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing...... That's a lot of money! If it's a little bigger, you always want tens of thousands of taels of silver! He Qi exclaimed, "It's just that there are few rich people I know, I'm afraid I have to ask Fang Mo to inquire!" ”
Zhang Yuqing hurriedly said: "There is no need to worry about Fang Mo in this matter. ”
He Qi asked anxiously: "But what did that kid say that brainless thing that made the girl angry?" ”
"Not really." Zhang Yuqing saw that He Qi had the posture of beating Fang Mo, she couldn't cry or laugh, and simply explained: "These two Zhuangzi were my mother's dowry back then, and after my mother's accidental death, Mrs. Zhang has been in charge of her, and now I want to take it back, she is naturally unwilling." ”
He Qi was stunned, "But this Zhuangzi is not hers in the first place, the girl wants to take it back, it is right!" ”
Wang Chunniang said helplessly: "Zhuangzi has been in charge of Mrs. Zhang for so many years, and she has taken the benefits for so many years, and when she puts the meat in her mouth, she will treat it as her own!" ”
"The eldest girl of the Zhang family is Fang Mo's future housewife, if Fang Mo comes out to find a buyer, I think it will inevitably offend people, so I still don't bother Fang Mo's son in this matter." Zhang Yuqing said empathetically.
He Qi didn't expect this to be the case, and hugged his fists and sighed: "The girl is a good person!" It's just that the Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing is priceless, and if the girl sells it, it will be difficult to buy it again! If you are not short of money, it is better to put it there, and the annual output is also a lot of income! ”
Wang Chunniang said with a smile: "Brother He doesn't know, my girl's marriage is decided, and she wants to marry to Wu County, so she wants to sell the Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing!" ”
He Qi was taken aback, and turned his head to look at Zhang Yuqing, "The girl wants to marry so far away?" ”
Zhang Yuqing nodded.
Wang Chunniang said: "The Zhang family treats our girl very coldly, but the family in Wu County is very good to my girl. There is nothing to be nostalgic about in the capital, so it is better to go far away and have a good home! ”
He Qi rubbed his big rough hands back and forth, looked up at the gentle and beautiful eyes above Wang Chunniang's veil, plucked up his courage, and stammered: "Then, what about you, you?" ”
"Me?" Wang Chunniang asked in surprise, "You ask me?" ”
He Qi nodded, his honest face was full of nervousness, "You, are you going to follow the girl to Wu County?" ”
"I ......" Wang Chunniang hesitated, she was only happy that Zhang Yuqing had a good home, and she didn't think about herself.
"Chun Niang will definitely follow me." Zhang Yuqing said softly.
She took Wang Chunniang out of the house and must not leave it alone.
"You're going to Wu County too?" He Qi couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, and he always felt disappointed and sour.